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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.

Mitski

On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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